Found it, however it was more difficult than expected. My Garmin 3+ showed a 10m offset at the cache location to the exact 49N9E position. My girlfriend didn't trust the machine and found it anyways. The pictures on the cache homepage were helpful. It's a nice place for a cache.
Traded out the snaplight, traded in: Bus Ticket of Kyoto, Italian Telephone Card, Korean Stamp 400 Won, One Rollerblade Wheel (used), Ignition Key of Kawasaki Zephyr ZRX 750, One ball of the frontwheel bearing of the same motorbike which broke down on a trip to Hokkaido/Japan (see homepage for pics of the intact bike), One Lollipop.
Had a lot of fun!
Giorgio

Had to check several potential places before I found the right spot. Was fun seeking it, but on a sunny saturday there are many people strolling around the area. Had to wait some time to be able to hide it again in secret. The cache is in good condition. The box is quite small, and so I couldn't dump the CD case I took from GC77 earlier that day (the one coming from Australia). Took the liqueur, left a lolli and some batteries. I recommend using the ELBE ferry coming from north, the ride down to the cache is most relaxing. Giorgio

This seems to be the most frequented cache in Germany. Great, a long logbook makes the find more interesting. Had the chance to visit the area during a trip to Berlin from southern Germany, did 2 caches on that day. Thanks to the pics I had no problems in finding. The cache is in good condition. Traded out a CD case, left a screwdriver set and a Dotwin from McD. Giorgio

This was the cache with the most beautiful surroundigs for us (Cache around the World, Motocrash and Giorgio) so far. Beautiful sunny sunday and springtime. Went with our motorbikes and had a lof of fun on the winding road up to the cache. I probed several places, but finally it was C.A.T.W. again who found it first. Cache was in perfect condition, seems we were the first to find it. Took the pina colada, left a CD case, a padlock, some Dextro tablets and an icescraper. The CD case was actually taken from GC77 in Berlin this Saturday and before it was reportedly in a GeoCache in Australia (see GC77 records). Had a nice afternoon and a lot of fun. Motocrash, C.A.T.W., Giorgio

We decided to spend the days after Himmelfahrt riding motorbike and seeking some caches in the Rhine and Mosel area, and this one was our first (1 pm). The weather was perfect: Sunny blue sky and clear view. The parking lot we found was just perfect: There is a tiny railway-bridge next to where the road comes closest to the cache (180m). Our two bikes fit in, maybe also a car. The ascent proved to be very strenuous, partly because of the heat, partly because of the steep climb, partly because we were wearing our heavy bike clothing. The latter was on the other hand perfect against the Brombeer-spines, Brennesseln and obtrusive insects. Nevertheless we were rewarded with a splendid view. C.A.T.W. found the cache first again, and was very happy about it. My GPS insisted that the spot had to be some 60m distant from the actual location.
Traded in: Goat-bell, Inline-Skate-Wheel, Lavazza Candies, Liqueur-Bottle (Collected from GC38B). Traded out: Wrist-Watch. Had a lot of fun.

After doing the Rhine View Stash at noon, we had a wonderful motorbike-tour along the rhine-river, across the Hunsrueck and down the Mosel river. After finding a place to stay near Cochem, we drove to Burg Elz (7pm). Anyone spending the night like we did, might consider staying in one of the small pensions on the road beetween Mosel and Burg Elz, they look nice. Unfortunately we found them too late. The view of the castle in the evening light is spectacular, definitely worth the visit. The cache was found quickly within a few minutes. Reading Vinnie's comment before, we had prepared a few plastic bags and replaced the old blue bag, which was indeed totally ripped apart. The new bag is green. Traded out a pocket knife, traded in a wrist watch (collected from Rhine View stash), Lavazza Candies, a Karabiner-Keyholder, a Goat-Bell, an Inline-Skate-Wheel. Rounded the day off with some Mosel-Wein and Spargel in Klotten. Great Day.

The last of our three caches targeted on our Rhine-Mosel holiday. Went there around noon on another perfect sunny warm spring day. We parked our motorbikes in front of Dodge City and walked the rest (we did it the easy way :-) The climbing proved to be the easiest part. Hiding away for a full hour of intensive seeking, the cache finally showed its green plastic bag. This was the hardest search for us so far, even C.A.T.W. , who found nearly all, has to admit this. Couldn't get a good position fix, maybe due to all these trees. The hideout really is a cool place. It seems that there is some connection to a grotto or something, because very cold air is coming out of the place. In the hot afternoon it was refreshing to feel the extreme coldness. Somebody should place icecream there ... Totally sweated and exhausted from the 1-hour search, including climbing and turning nearly every stone around the place, we were very happy with our find. Traded out a CD and a bottle-opener, traded in a set of cards, a goat-bell, an inline-skate-wheel, some Lavazza-candies a sheep and a penguin. I just read that the stash has been visited again later the same day! We may have passed ourselves on the way to/from there! We had a lot of fun with our three caches in two days and are looking forward to doing something this again soon.

After seeing Vinnies and Nicis log in nearly every logbook we had so far, finally we could make it to their home-stash. Coming from Stuttgart, most of the German caches are unfortunately quite far away for us. We used this long weekend for a two-day-tour to the north and tried our luck. This was the second cache that day after Gebbes on the other side of the border. Drusus' was a hard one :-) Spent about 3.5h in total, including lunch on the main place of Elten in the summer sun. The tasks were quickly solved, but first we forgot to substract the 100 (Greetings to Hawkeyes) due to a nasty linebreak in our printout. Second, we were not able to match the sketch to the actual surroundings. Probed nearly every tree-stump in the area, and there are many. We were already on our way back to the car when we gave it one last try and relied solely (!) on the GPS coordinates readout. It lead us to a place some 10m distant than before. Pushed my little shovel in the ground there and heared the confirming clonck. Finally! Cache is in good condition, but the next visitor could replace the plastic bags, which are torn partly. Took the JoJo and the paradox clock, left a Koala-bear, postcards, pocket calculator and a tricky game. Thanks to Wickie (we came to abbreviate Vinnie and Nicki because we have to read it so often ;-) ) for this adventurous afternoon. P.S.: How long did it take to set this cache up? We were amazed how you made the figures fit the cache location. P.P.S.: Didn't expect to be able to see the Rhine from the cache location, great! P.P.P.S: After Drusus, we went to hide the cache Library near Lesenbuechen. You are invited to drop by when you are in the area.

Cache Contents

Haben im Grillrestaurant Rottspitze N50°38.760' E7°18.739' zu Mittag gegessen (Spaghetti OK, Gyros versalzen). Der Verdauungsspaziergang noch zum Himmerich war sehr angenehm bei Sonnenschein. Auch die Sicht vom Viewpoint aus ist toll, wir waren vom Siebengebirge-Cache, den wir vorher gemacht hatten, bereits etwas verwoehnt. Wickie, ihr solltet mal zum N49E9 gehen, der Behaelter dort ist noch groesser. Genommen: Pinguin und psychedelisches Mousepad. Dagelassen: Haarspange, Zippo vom Cache Gebbes/Holland, Postkarten, Magnethalma, CD-Quiz. Haben die Cola light durch eine richtige Cola ersetzt! Auf dem Rueckweg haben wir dann auch den Ameisenhuegel gesehen. CATW & Giorgio

Lag auf dem Heimweg von Holland nach Stuttgart, da mussten wir natuerlich noch vorbeischauen. Ein schweisstreibender Aufstieg bei schwuelem Sommerwetter. Haben's auf der direkten Route ab Parkplatz angegangen. Am Fuss des Geroellfeldes sind wir von subtropischen Regenfaellen ueberrascht worden, aber so schnell es angefangen hat war's auch wieder vorbei. G. hat sich wieder aufs GPS verlassen und die unteren drei 'Brunnen' unter die Lupe genommen, dabei mehrere Dutzend Asselfamilien beim Mittagsschlaf gestoert. CATW ist gleich zum richtigen nach oben geklettert und hat mal wieder alles zuerst gefunden. Dagelassen: CD Megastar von Cache Gebbes in Holland, Jojo von Cache Drusus, Taschenrechner von Cache Altenberg, Postkarten und Faltencreme. Genommen: Phone Flasher. Danach sind wir weiter zum Gipfel. Die Efeu-ueberwucherte Treppe fuehrt auf den Balkon der Richtfunkstation und der ist off-limits fuer
Besucher. Besser aussenrum gehen. Die Sicht von oben ist umwerfend. Wir haben sogar den Koelner Dom gesehen. Fuer Navigationszwecke vielleicht noch interessant: Die Aussichtsplatte ist bei N50°40.936'
E7°14.884' CATW & Giorgio

Nach einem erfolgreichen Tagesbeginn in Altenberg sind wir um die Ecke zur Wiehbachquelle weitergefahren. Ankunft 11 Uhr. Giorgio hat noch auf dem GPS-Display den exakten Nullpunkt gesucht, als CATW (wieder mal zuerst) die Schachtel ausfindig gemacht hatte. Genommen: Feuerzeug Dagelassen: Duschgel, afrikan. Armband, Spiel, Haarklammer, Blutspenden. Die Schachtel ist jetzt voll :-) Bewacher war keiner da. Sind dananch noch an der Wiehbach entlanggefahren, nettes Tal. Weiter ging's dann Richtung Heimat uebers Siebengebirge. CATW & Giorgio P.S.: Am Abend zuvor haben wir den Cache Library versteckt, ist nur 25km entfernt. Unbedingt besuchen :-)

Nachdem wir am Abend zuvor den Cache Library in Lesenbuechen versteckt hatten (unbedingt suchen, ist nur ca. 25km von Altenberg entfernt) und in Wipperfuerth uebernachtet haben, sind wir morgens weiter nach Altenberg gefahren. Waren auf eine lange Suche eingestellt nach all den Logs, haben die Dose aber sofort gefunden (etwa eine crazy clock Zeitspanne lang gesucht). Den empfohlenen Sonnenuntergang haben wir zwar nicht abgewartet, aber an einem sonnigen Morgen ist das verwunsche Tuermchen im Urwald auf jeden Fall auch die Reise wert. Genommen: Kreditkartenetui Dagelassen: Schweizer Taschenmesser, Creme, Postkarten, Anhaenger. Der Cache ist in relativ gutem Zustand, die Dose wird aber aussen nass. Naechster Besucher bitte neue Tueten mitbringen, die alten loesen sich auf. Wie sich das so anbietet, sind wir danach zur Wiehbachquelle gefahren. CATW & Giorgio P.S.: Von Hoch- und Tiefbauarbeiten sieht man nichts mehr, ist bereits wieder alles von der gruenen Hoelle ueberwuchert :-)

Cache contents and the view:

Coming from Stuttgart/Germany, we are rarely in the north and decided to use the long weekend to try our luck with some geocaches in the north. We started at 5am in Stuttgart/Germany and arrived around 11am in the area. CATW found the stash without problems (GPSIII+, EPE8 DOP2.0). Took the lighter and CD (did not fit in any more), left a travellunch pina colada (collected from cache Southpark near Stuttgart, bring some water with you), make-up and a small game. Were stunned by the area on the hike to the viewpoint (went there directly but found a signboard later prohibiting this... better use the trails). Recommendations: Come in July, when the blueberries are fully ripe. Unfortunately no boars to be seen, but we met a cute duck-family on the green pond. The baby-ducks were roaming the lake like speed-boats. Proceeded to Drusus' cache on the other side of the border. CATW & Giorgio

Hey, we're first! Or maybe all the other seekers have been eaten up by the mosquitos and didn't have time to sign the logbook. Went there after a quick dinner in the Post in Gemuenden. This gave the rain the chance to cease before we started. Parked the car as recommended, but tried some direct route which turned out to require waterproof boots, which we didn't bring ... Did some detours around fenced tree-nurseries, rock-fields and thickets. Around us the bullets of the evening deer hunters were whistling, but we made it! In the last daylight, we reached the top and, as always, CATW found it first. It takes two people to do this cache, one is needed to fight the insects while the other one does the log. Took the darts game, left 4 AA Batteries, a game and the phone flasher from cache Siebengebirge. We were _very_ proud to beat Wickie the first time, nearly on their home-territory. Thanks to Rhine Knight for taking us there. Just before the big rain came, we made it to the car and returned home to Stuttgart. Great day with five successful cache challenges. As of today, 16.06.2001, we collected _all_ 18 German geocaches (hid five of them by ourselves)! Hopefully, the geocaching crowd hides lots of new caches soon, or we need to seek a new hobby! CATW & Giorgio

Uns hat's auch viel Spass gemacht! Mit dem Wetter hatten wir, trotz schlechter Prognose, ja auch noch viel Glueck! Anbei die Bilder von Spatz1. Ein paar haben wir auch gemacht, dauert aber noch etwas mit der Entwicklung. Bis bald, CATW & Giorgio

Since it rained all day this sunday, I wanted to get as close as possible to the cache. Tried a first approach from the east and could drive as close as 800m. Then came a very steep hill. Didn't want to risk a dircect cross-country approach in the downpour. Next try was from the west, again less than 800m close and again there was a gorge between me and the cache. Tried hard but could not locate the recommended parking lot. Ran out of time because I had to get back to Germany in the evening. Should maybe have consulted a map in advance and reserved more time (and should have gone with better weather in the first place). Unsatisfied. Giorgio

Made use of this rainy sunday and drove over to Zurich from Stuttgart, Germany. Found it without any problems, actually the container could be seen from 10m distance., it was not covered at all. Took the straps and left an (new and empty) wallet, collected from stash Altenberg in Germany. You are invited to visit my caches in southern Germany, they are not so far away: Wings, Triangle, Library. Giorgio

Took advantage of the fine weather this saturday and made a motorbike-tour to the Teck castle. Came from a different parking lot than recommended and had tremendous problems to get any GPS signal at all in the dense forest. Actually we circled once fully around Teck castle until we got the first position fix. Once the bearing was established, the find was easy, however the terrain deserves the rating. I wonder what happens to the cache when the local forest workers come to clean up the mess. Took the skipass-holder, left a postcard, a dart-game (collected from stash Wormrather Hoehe) and the usual rollerblade-wheel. Will check out Breuberg tomorrow. Giorgio & CATW

Habe den sonnigen Sonntag zu einer kleinen Motorradtour von Stuttgart in den Odenwald genutzt. Die Suche nach dem ersten Cache hat etwas gedauert, da ich im Wald bei EPE 15m einen schlechtem Empfang hatte. Unter der Annahme, daß auch beim Verstecken EPE 15m Genauigkeit waren, hätte man im schlimmsten Fall 15x15x3.14=706 Quadratmeter abzusuchen! Beim zweiten Cache ging's dann schneller, ab Parkplatz warens ja nur noch rund 20 Meter. Habe den Flaschenöffner gegen einen Skipassanhänger eingetauscht. Klasse Gegend zum Mopedfahren! Giorgio

The View from Stage #1

The cache is back in place! Since the cache owner didn't contact me or Vinne&Nici, I put it back in the original place after drying it out for a few weeks. The container is still rusty, so I put all contents inside in a plastic bag plus wrapped the whole container in a thick blue plastic bag. Should be waterproof now. In any case, next visitor, please take some large plastic bags with you in case you destroy the old one during your seek. Good luck everyone. Giorgio.

Coming directly from Stuttgart, we found the place without problems, actually it was a little bit too easy (CATW's difficulty rating: Terrain 2 Difficulty 1.5). The area with the rocks is stunning and the cache place is well chosen. Enjoyed the hunt. We hid the container behind the rock at the same place (not before), but it can still be seen without digging or climbing. We traded the dehydrated food against a Penguin with sun-chair (from cache Techer near Stuttgart), and a few postcards. After the cache we did the cave-tour, which is definitely worth the visit. At the moment we are actually sitting at the Forellenhof next to the Teufelshoehle after a very delicious smoked-trout lunch (hacking this log into my Palm, will upload into the net in the evening). Next visitor, please bring a pen, there was none in the cache. CATW & Giorgio

We passed today on the B8 running near the first stage of the multipart cache and couldn't resist hiking there. Found it without any problems, first stage is in good condition. Didn't have time to do all stages, will come back some other time. CATW & Giorgio

We were on our way back to Germany with our motorbikes from our summer-holiday in Sardegna/Italy when we spontaneously decided to approach this cache. While driving the road from Sihlbrugg to Zurich, the cache kind of fell into our way. I usually have my GPS receiver attached to the motorbike cockpit during tours and have the moving map on display to help navigation. Suddenly, I saw the dollar-sign I only use for Geocaches in the display! (As a kind of precaution, I did download all Geocache coordinates in Switzerland and Italy before the holiday :-) Since the road we were driving approaches the cache as near as 1.5 km, we _had_ to go for it. We did it the easy way with the cable-car. CATW found it within 5 minutes. Thanks to the ziplock bags, the content is in good condition. The tupperware box gets wet inside, however. We wrapped the box in a vinyl to prevent water damage. The view during the hike really is fantastic. Since it was already late in the afternoon, we decided to spend the night in the area and drove up the Albis-Pass and stayed in the Windegg-Hotel, which has rooms with a view of the lake and Zurich. Nearly as splendid as from the Uetliberg. CATW & Giorgio

The cache is open again! I moved Stage#1 a few kilometers to a - hopefully - better place. ATTENTION! THE COORDINATES FOR STAGE #1 HAVE CHANGED! If you have the old coordinates of Wings#1 in your GPS or Computer, replace them with the new coordinates shown above. If you like chocolate, bring big bags with you, as there is a factory outlet of Ritter Sport Chocolates right next to Stage #1. Stage #2 is untouched at the same place as before. Have Fun! Giorgio

Checked the cache location today. Stage #1 of Wings is stolen. Checked also stage #2, which is still there. Too bad for the contents of stage #1, especially the logbook and the camera with the memories of the first finder(s). Now that it's gone: Stage #1 was below the ski ramp, as you might have expected. I'll make sure to place a new stage #1 in a slightly different location, in case the thiefs comes back. Have to prepare things first, please be patient. AT THE MOMENT, STAGE #1 of GEOCACHE WINGS IS NOT AT THE GIVEN COORDINATES. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR NEWS. Cheers, Giorgio.

Out first night cache! On the way back from the Bergstrasse, we found ourselves in pitch black night when arriving at the lake. Relied solely on the GPS readout and the small light cone of our Lucido LED flashlight. Really an experience, to stumble through unknown swamps and only trust the small LCD screen's readout. Walked for about 45min until we got to the location. The pipe was quickly found, but we read the cheats before. Out: Dornier Keyring In: Eau de Toilette collected at Frankenstein's Castle Cache earlier the same day, Penguin, Metal Door Xylophone. Nice and scary experience on Halloween today! Cheers, CATW & Giorgio

Halloween today, of course we had to check out this cache on this special day. Came from the successful challenge of Bergstrasse Microcache, which is only a stone-throw away. Very geocacher-friendly. The location was quickly found by the logical approach (where would I place a cache here?. Seems that there is hell of a party going on here at night with all these stands. Were surprised to see that Gschwanz had been here before on the same day. We must have met on the road between Bergstrasse Cache and Frankenstein Castle! Out: Dracula teeth and Eau de Toilette. In: Psychedelic Mousepad (collected from cache Himmerich earlier this year), Dehydrated Food (collected from cache Pottenstein earlier this year). CATW & Giorgio

Took advantage of the holiday and made a pleasant tour through the autumn-colored Odenwald to the cache. Had to cheat on the compass bearing, couldn't make out the correct tower in Frankfurt and only had the Garmin as a compass, not a very good way to get a precise bearing. I was still trying to get a good bearing to the target coordinates from the parking lot (distance reading ~35m) while CATW started her analytical approach and was faster (again). Found the stash within 3 minutes after arriving at the location (Greetings to Gschwanz :-) I bet you parked your car just next to it ...) I think the coordinates you obtain by the calculation offset you from the real cache location by some 30m, maybe the cache owner can check this out. Forgot to take a waypoint myself for reference, sorry. Out: Pin In: 5 centimes, Fog Sticker. Happy to be the first ones to find this one. CATW & Giorgio

Coming from Kreuzkapelle and Advanced Taunus, we already had six cache approaches in our feet and were a bit tired. Luckily (and thanks to the description and helpful logs of fellow geocachers) the location was found in no time, could park the car only 150m away. CATW had to tie her shoes and well, there it was. Followed the example of our predecessors and did the trading in the cafe. Both Walnut tart and Sacher tart are highly recommendable. Our first urban cache, was fun! Cheers, CATW & Giogio

Did the first stage some weeks before, see log below. Meanwhile some Stage#2 coordinates changed and Gerhard was so friendly to send a fast update by email, thanks again! Tried one in a direct approach, including a _very_ steep uphill climb, rocks, swamps, thorny undergrowth etc. Arrived exhausted. As usual, it was CATW who spotted the cache first. Good condition, no maintenance needed. Somehow we managed the steep hill back down in one piece and went off to the next one. Tried to be smart and drive to the one the most distant, thinking that these two would complete the puzzle. Were glad that the long hike from the parking lot involved nearly no altitude changes. Good condition here, too, but the plastic bag was rotten. We replaced it, the new bag is blue. Being fairly exhausted already, we were shattered to the bones by the fact that the these two caches were not enough, we needed a third one. Luckily, that one was done in no time. Good condition here, too. There was the complete puzzle and we made our success march to the final stage. Approx. 500 cars were parked near the location .... sunny sunday, that's why. Fortunately we were by ourselves in the stash area. Cache is in perfect condition. Had to skip another planned Geocache approach for the afternoon since night was falling, but we were very happy to have succeded at last. Cheers, CATW & Giorgio

Started in Stuttgart at 6:30 in the morning and arrived around 9:30 am at the Kreuzkapelle. The numbers were quickly found, but having only 25m visibility due to fog, we had to use both cheats (couldn't even see the benches from C.#1). Calculated the final coordinates and off we went with the car ... We searched the final location (or we thought it might be) for about 20 minutes, the bullets of the morning deer hunters were whistling around us, but no cache. CATW decided to recalculate and found our error instantly - we forgot one subtraction. Back into the car and to where we came from. The rest was fairly easy (CATW found it first, as usual). The cache is in perfect condition. I got a distance reading of 22m on the cache location (incl. 30 averages at 9m EPE). We guess the view from the Kreuzkapelle is magnificent. The fog definitely is. Cheers, CATW & Giorgio

We did it the easy way and drove by car to the viewpoint as starting point. Snow on the track and a chilling wind made the 800m hike to the number on the fence quite tiring anyway. Was fun to see the planes land and depart while hiking along the runway. When we saw the number, we recognized that we could have used the same number on the roadsign a few minutes before. That would have been the very easy way. Collected our car and drove over near the next location. OK, the last few meters might not have been legal by car, but it was very cold. The fauna is unbelievable: So close to the noisy airport, but still we saw a few falcons and we startled a deer, followed by a rabbit. The Garmin led us directly on top of the cache, which is in good condition. Cheers, Giorgio & CATW.

It was raining or snowing all day, but we decided to challenge the Processor Cache anyways. Had to drive the first leg a few times until we got the trick with the eternal light. Visibility was very low and the last time we drove by, we wouldn't have recognized the light without knowing that it was there. Drove over to collect the waypoint and figured out the final coordinates by the distance/bearing hint. Started to hike on the final approach from 1500m distance line-of-sight. Weather was deteriorating, water/snow from above, the dirt tracks in the forest were wet and slippery. At the given coordinates the satellite reception was quite bad and the target spot jumped from here to there. Since everything was covered by snow, we had a hard locating potential spots. Turned everything we saw, but in a diameter of ~20m, no cache to be found. After a one hour search, our shoes and clothes were soaked through and we gave up. This the first cache we didn't find so far. Disappointed. Giorgio & CATW